Alexa Von Tobel Quotes
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.
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I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
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I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
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I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.
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I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
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I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
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There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.
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Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
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I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.
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I don't bash my company. I don't bash my opponents. I don't miss weight.
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I don't really play a lot of games.
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I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
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Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.
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With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that you're really working with an audience. You've got to have a relationship with the audience. Play with them and show them things you want them to see.
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Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.
